Vending-machine.



C. B. WEST.

VENDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 18, 1912.

Patented Mar.25,1913.

COLUMBIA PLANO RAPH CO" WASHINGTON. D. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES BERT WEST, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO J. M. CARSON, E. A. CARSON, AND A. H. JONES, ALL OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

VENDING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 25, 1913.

Application filed Apri1 18, 1912. Serial No. 691,768.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES BERT VEST, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of LosAngeles, State of California, have invented a new and useful Vending-Machine, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to vending machines particularly adapted for vending newspapers, magazines and the like, and the objects of the invention are to produce a device of this character which is of simple and economical construction, durable in use, and effective in operation.

Referring to the drawings :F igure 1 is a side elevation of the device showing parts in normal position. Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 showing the parts in vending position. Fig. 3 is a section on line ar -m Fig. 1. Fig. 4: is a side elevation on an enlarged scale of the slotted lever.

1 designates the supporting wall, 2 designates the vending slide, and 3 designates the article, as, for example, a magazine, which is to be vended and which rests upon the vending slide 2. In the supporting wall is a vertical slot 1, and pins 5 and 6 project from the vending slide 2 through the slot 4 and guide the vending slide. The pin 6 is longer than the pin 5 and projects through the slotted portion 7 of a lever 8 which is pivoted at 9. A link 10 is connected to the lever 8 and to a lever 11 which is pivoted at 12 and has a thumb-piece 13 for operating it.

A spring 1 1 normally holds the lever 11 elevated, as shown in Fig. 1. Upon depress ing the lever 11 the link 10 draws up on the lever 8 and the slotted portion of lever 8 acting upon pin 6 lifts the vending slide 2 and magazine or other article 3 which is being vended, enabling the article to be withdrawn. The curve of the slotted portion 7 of the lever 8 is such that the pressure against the pin 6 is always as nearly in a line parallel with the slot 1 as possible, so that there is no pressure against the pin 6 tending to force it against the side wall of the slot 4 which would cause it to bind in the slot. Its movement is, therefore, free and unrestricted and upon release of the lever 11 the spring 14: immediately restores the parts to normal position.

15 designates a stop for arresting the parts when they have been moved into vending position.

What I claim is:

1. In a vending machine, a supporting wall having a slot, a vending slide with a pin projecting through said slot, a lever pivoted to the supporting wall having a slotted portion engaging said. pin, an operating lever pivoted to the supporting wall, and a link connecting the operating lever and said first lever, the slotted portion of said first lever being curved.

2. In a vending machine, a supporting wall having a slot, a reciprocating vending slide with two pins projecting through said slot, a lever pivoted to the supporting wall and having a curved slotted portion engaging one of said pins, an operating lever pivoted to the supporting wall, a link pivoted to one end of the operating lever, and to an intermediate point of the first lever, and a,

spring connected to the operating lever for restoring it and the associated parts to normal position.

, In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Los Angeles, California this 11th day of April 1912.

CHARLES BERT WE ST.

In presence of G. T. HACKLEY, FREDERICK S. LYON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

